Ensuring the new Athletes' Village for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires is ready on time for the event is the main concern for organisers, its chief executive Leandro Larrosa told insidethegames here.

Identical numbers of men and women are set to compete at the Buenos Aires 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in what is set to mark the first time full gender equality has been achieved at any form of the Games.

Francisco Irarrázaval, chief executive of Buenos Aires 2018, has promised the Argentinian capital will deliver a Summer Youth Olympic Games that "will inspire" by focusing on human development and social integration and they are not thinking beyond that event.

Buenos Aires 2018 has vowed to bring sport to the 2.6 million young people residing in the Argentine capital, particularly its inner city residents, when it hosts the Summer Youth Olympic Games in four years' time.

October 16 - Frankie Fredericks has been appointed as the chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, it was announced today.

July 3 - Medellín has secured victory by an overwhelming margin on the insidethegames poll asking readers which city they think should hold the 2018 Youth Olympics just a day before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elects the host city.

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Hulking Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren is best known to movie fans for his role in the film Rocky IV in 1985. For the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta he was selected by the United States Olympic Committee as the team leader of the American modern pentathlon team. Though he attended the Games and marched with the US delegation in the Opening Ceremony, his role was largely honorary. It was bestowed on Lundgren as a result of the time he spent training with the team in preparation for his role in the film Pentathlon, where he starred as an East German Olympic gold medalist on the run from an abusive coach played by David Soul. As a result of the time he spent with the team, Lundgren became a major supporter of the campaign to keep modern pentathlon on the Olympic programme.

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